WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

Otago Witness, Issue 2667, 26 April 1905, Page 58

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS

By P. Xowtkk.

April -20. Dear Pasquin, — "The Broken Melody" and Mons. A. Van Biene closed a most successful week's season at the Opera House last night. The company goes south.

On Saturday night Miss Nellie Stewart and the Musgrove Dramatic Company open a month's season at the Opera House" in a revival of "Sweet Nell of Old Drury." ■ The Taylor-Carrington Dramatic Company concluded its three-weeks' season at His Majesty's Theatre on Tueday evening with a performance of the evergreen weeper, "East Lynne." The company had some very large attendances during the season, and will be welcomed back again.

King Laughter and Princess Vaudeville are to resume their sway in His Majesty's Theatre next Saturday night, when a new combination of Fuller's Entertainers will re-open the Courtenay place home of amusement. The following is the new roster: — Tantell (horizontal bar), Tom Hedley (a musical Weary Willie), Ward Lear (comedian), James Opie (baritone), Freda Brandon (cornet), Sam La Mert (whistler), Madell Sister 3 (song and dance), Trixie Le Mar (dancer), Lavinia Tyson (ballad), Harry Leeds (comedian), Alma Lyndon (hurricane dancer;, Flo Calcutt (serio),and Barrie Marschel and Irene Carlyon (society sketchers).

The Theatre Royal is Co be re-opened once more under Mr Percy Dixs management next Saturday night. Features : The Bicknells, the Royal English Biograph, Misses N. Holland, D. Ponald. and Harrie Alexander, Robert Lloyd, Harry Shine, H. Carleton, and George Warsaw.

The seventeenth annual meeting of shareholders of our Ooera House Company was held last Moaday afternoon, the anticipated proceedings being of such an excitable nature that a bare quorum was in attendance! The rents during the year ended March 31 last totalled £2514 13s sd, something short of last year's total, which constituted a record in the company's "history. The Chairman of Directors (Mr W. H. P. Barber, M.H.R.) stated that £1112 had been expended in improvements to the house during the t>ast two years conseauent upon the conditions imposad by the City Council, following upon the Chicago fire. Of this amount, £260 was paid last year, and it had been decided by the directors that of the remaining sum half should be expended out oi- this year's earnings, and the other half out of next year's earnings. The company had reduced its mortgage during the year by £600, and that account now stood at £2275. Other improvements were contemplated, including the erection of an asbestos drop curtain and renovation of the social hall. The prefect was exceedingly bright, as the boolrings already for the year were ahead of all previous bookings. A dividend of 8 per cent, was declared. Messrs Barber and S. Gilmer were re-elected directors. It was declared at the meetinor that when the* wholp of the improvements of the schema of the directors ha-d been completed the Wellington Opera House would compare favourably with any other house of the kinrl in the colony. The bookings for, the rest of the year constituted a record.